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Classic/Old Style, Redirection, Locking.

Posted on 11/20/2001 6:41:53 AM PST by John Robinson

To facilitate transition to a 100% database-driven website, articles posted prior to Sept 5th, 2001 will be locked and will not be able to receive further commentary. This will be effective sometime next week, I will attempt to give 7 days of notice (via the posting program) prior to locking them completely. This will allow active discussions on these older threads to be continued to new threads.

As a consequence, I have removed the "Old Style" link from articles posted since Sept 5th, 2001. "Old Style" (/forum/) URLs for such articles will now redirect to the new /focus/ URL.

After the locking, the old /forum/ articles will exist in a read-only state. I will attempt to automatically redirect replies to these old articles to a new thread, allowing discussion of old articles to continue.


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To: RonDog
"With the "New Style" format, will there be any way to see a FULL LIST of all the screen names in a MEGA-"ping list"

You can "view source" then copy and paste.
41 posted on 11/20/2001 12:09:09 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: RonDog
OOPs disregard my last post about "view source"
42 posted on 11/20/2001 12:12:11 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: John Robinson
I can live with the changes, but I do have a couple questions:

Thanks.
43 posted on 11/20/2001 12:17:59 PM PST by Willie Green
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To: John Robinson
I don't like the new style - but, I guess we're stuck with it whether we do or don't. I'd prefer the ability to access the old style in settings, for any number of good reasons... but it seems that personal preferences is not the agenda.
44 posted on 11/20/2001 12:48:51 PM PST by Ron C.
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To: SarahW
Click "settings" at the bottom of this page and you can set it to 250.
45 posted on 11/20/2001 3:09:01 PM PST by Tony in Hawaii
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To: Tony in Hawaii
Thanks Tony - that will help me when I am trying to follow a big thread.

What would be EVEN MORE USEFUL, would be a "show next 25/50/100/200/all posts" button right at the bottom of the thread with the other buttons. Having to depart the thread, and change the setting for any and all threads I might view, is CUMBERSOME and a PITA.

It doesn't really matter what default setting is; what is needed is more flexibility to change around while I am viewing a thread, within the thread.

As it is, I have to leave,change the default to see a different number of posts, leave, change it back again to get my preferred default.

46 posted on 11/20/2001 4:29:34 PM PST by SarahW
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To: John Robinson; RonDog; Willie Green
Yeah, what RonDog (#39) and Willie Green (#43) asked...

I really miss the archive search!

47 posted on 11/20/2001 4:40:24 PM PST by Mercuria
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To: John Robinson; Ron C.
**shrug, sigh**

C'mon, I just got used to the OLD Style...hehehe.

(Although I like the "ping list" ability one can do...more than a few names to ping at a time, ping categories...very cool...but I STILL miss the "e-mail tag"! That was fun to play with. **g**)

48 posted on 11/20/2001 4:42:48 PM PST by Mercuria
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To: John Robinson
Not having top and last is extremely hard when you're on web tv and want to refresh the thread. With the old style, just refresh and push last, then you see the new reply. With the new style, refresh and you have to go through all the replies to see one new reply. Repeat to see the next new reply.
49 posted on 11/20/2001 5:15:35 PM PST by Lucky
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To: John Robinson
Isn't it against Federal law to discriminate a thread due to its' age?

I miss archive function also.

50 posted on 11/20/2001 5:25:12 PM PST by It'salmosttolate
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To: Lucky; Mercuria; It'salmosttolate
Right this way, FRolkes -

It's the amazing OPUS/Pinguin! All are welcome to ooh, ahh, boo, and sob. BYOH (Bring your own hanky.) : )

51 posted on 11/20/2001 5:34:04 PM PST by American Preservative
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